Here’s what to have in mind if you want to develop a collaborative app like Figma, Notion, or Canva
Seamless user experience and resolving conflicts are the biggest challenges when developing collaborative apps.
Archive for the category: Productivity
DORA, SPACE, GSM, or DevEx: How to measure developer productivity?
Producing more code in a unit of time is not a measure of high-quality code or productivity.
Let's dive deeper into measuring developer productivity.
McKinsey says they can measure developer productivity. Kent Beck says they can’t.
It's rubbish, says Grady Brooch. This kind of surveillance makes geeks feel less safe, says Kent Beck.
After 10 years, our remote-only company had its first in-person meeting
This is how we went from a startup of 4 to a company of 20 people, all working remotely.
Do managers shift priorities to make engineers miserable?
Let me share what I've learned, as an engineer who has deep-dived into the business side of the pool, about why priorities change, and how that actually benefits me.
Why would anyone do something as absurd as mob programming?!
A few thousand lines of code everyone is satisfied with and understands used to sound like science fiction – now it was reality.
Two years into pair programming: The good and the challenging
In an attempt to speed up our development process, my teammates and I took a somewhat controversial route – we introduced pair programming. And it worked.
Still talking to your rubber duck? Draw a diagram instead.
Engineers often use the rubber duck approach when they are stuck, but why not draw for our little yellow friend instead?
Technical debt is a business problem
The term was coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992. at the OOPSLA conference [1] as a metaphor for developing a software asset. He concluded that the development process leads to new learning, as it depends upon artifacts he coined as technical debt.